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Category Archives: Knowledge Work
The Checklist Manifesto and Business Processes
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Implementing Insurance for the Uninsured- a view from Hartford Connecticut -The Insurance Capital of the World
We are near Hartford, Connecticut the Insurance capital so my views are biased in favor of the industry. More so when I learnt that Aetna Chairman and CEO Ronald Williams has regretfully announced 1200 job cuts in the next four months.
Input-Process-Output and Executive Bonus— Should we be outraged?
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Resurgence of innovation at Pittsburgh and the G-20 Summit
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Input-process-output and the supply-firm-marketing chain
The input-process-output ( ICT model) is a way of looking at the firm’s value chain. Supply managers handle the input coming in and the marketing folks handle the output coming out. Like: global suppliers ->supply chain->[firm-]->marketing->global customers Supply and Marketing folks are people who sit at either end of the firm and look atContinue reading “Input-process-output and the supply-firm-marketing chain”
The G-20 meeting and global supply chains
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Managing risks, actuaries and lessons from AIG- where was the human factor?
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-857684-6"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} Actuarial sciences are primarily mathematical and depend on past data. Since there was no past data the risk of insuring the mortgage-backed securities was underestimated. AIG insured banksContinue reading “Managing risks, actuaries and lessons from AIG- where was the human factor?”
From Culture’s Consequences to “Project Match” – IBM needs to add home country fixed costs
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Outsourcing and innovation – Hackett Study and NESCON Workshop
var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-857684-6”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); Apparently there is a new study by the Hackett Group that finds that while Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is on the rise because of cost savings , outsourcing executives are generally unhappy withContinue reading “Outsourcing and innovation – Hackett Study and NESCON Workshop”